Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism

FRIDAY

December 6


8:30-10:00 a.m. Session C

C1 Discourses of Radical Pedagogy: The Effects and Possibilities (Open Discussion)

C2 The Communist Tradition in the Socialist and Peoples Movements in the United States

C3 Experience, Materialism, Ideology

C4 Greens: Visions and Dynamics of Radical Community (Roundtable)

C5 Theatrical Politics

C6 From the Margins: Rethinking the State and Civil Society

C7 Yearning for Democratic Fulfillment: The Latent Potential of the Revolutionary Left (cosponsored by Forum of Indian Leftists [FOIL])

C8 Marxism, Multiculturalism and the Undergraduate Curriculum: An Open Discussion

C9 Postmodernity, Post-Marxism

C10 Literary Subjects

C11 Fetishism, Culture and the Construction of the Economy

C12 Classifying Class and Inequality

C13 Confronting Capital

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Session CD

CD1 Re-Thinking Black Marxism

CD2 Gramsci's Political Language

CD3 Detective Fiction: From Crime to Serial Killing

Panel 1
Panel 2

CD4 New Approaches to Value and the Crisis in Economics

10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Session D

D1 Dialectical and Postmodernist Perspectives on Value Theory

D2 Countering the Cultural Absolutism of Home: Cold War Discourse, the Religious Right, and Critical Strategies of Praxis

D3 Marxism and Surrealism: Contemporary Legacies

D4 Postmodernity and the Left, an Open Discussion

D5 Beyond Reading: Video and Popular Education

D6 Marxism and the Ecological Crisis (cosponsored by Capitalism, Nature, Socialism), Roundtable

D7 Taste/Power

D8 Talking About the Revolution: The Politics of Performance

D9 After Development

D10 Ex-centric Writers of the United States: A Materialist Approach to Literary Studies (Roundtable)

D11 History, Queer Visibility, and Consumer Culture

D12 Feminist Work in Global Politics

1:00-3:00 p.m. Session E

E1 Communism: Theory and Practice for Today

E2 Marx/Anti-Marx, After the Fall

E3 Things to Do with Specters of Marx

E4 Marxian Economics and the (De)Construction of the Economy

E5 Rethinking Modernity (or Not): Marxism and Postcolonial Theory

E6 Issues in Organizing for African-American Equality

E7 Critical Theory and Ecology: A Discussion of Against Nature

E8 New Frontier/Mappings in Critical Urban Theory

E9 Thinking and Acting Differently: The Later Althusser and Beyond

E10 Lock Down U.S.A.

E11 Work It Girl: How "Working Class Women" Give "Woman" Class

E12 The Preparation, Calculation and Use of Home Bodies

E13 Postcolonial Gazes

E14 Querying Globalization

E15 Japan: A Marxist Analysis

1:00-5:30 p.m. Session EF

EF1 Althusser after Althusser: Reflections on the Posthumous Publications

Part I
Part II
Part III

EF2 The Presence of Gramsci in Different Fields/Disciplines

EF3 Struggles in Steel: A Story of African American Steelworkers

3:30-5:30 p.m. Session F

F1 Robbie McCauley Performance

F2 Cultural Re-Education and the Brave New World Order

F3 Developments in the World Communist Movement

F4 Hegemony, Nation and Ideology

F5 Class and Politics in Africa

F6 Socialist (Re)visions

F7 Identity Formation

F8 Post-Strucuralist Political Economy

F9 Foundations of Justice

F10 Class and Health

7:30-9:30 p.m. Plenary II

Race and Class: A Dialogue

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